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Thousands of years, to be exact.

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Prime games too, although I've noticed they offer less GOG games than they once did, and I refuse to install their app on my pc.

In my defense prime is very cheap in my country, because they haven't crushed the competition yet.

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They gave notice.

Depending on the contract or location, this is more than enough.

Two weeks is often no more than a courtesy, and not a requirement. If the company fires you, they're unlikely to afford you that courtesy.

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Lots of employers don't verify at all, especially for low level stuff.

Companies are also unlikely to provide much more than the start and end date of employment. No point taking any risks, no benefit from warning another company.

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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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German re-unification cost trillions. It's entirely unsurprising.

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A lot of these systems are also always on.

Used to work at an airport that had a similar issue, turning some of these systems off simply isn't possible. So you end up having to run the replacement system simultaneously with the old system for a few days. Can't simply take it off line for a day.

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It's an expensive problem, especially if it's a system that's being used all across the airport by regular staff.

You need to train thousands of employees to use the new software, you need to have one person using the old software as a backup, while the other uses the new software, often while surrounded by hundreds of often angry customers.

And if something goes wrong, which it invaribly does (even if it's user error or someone snagging a cable), shit can get very expensive. Small delays, add up to larger delays, and cascade through the entire system. Delayed flights, tens of thousands of euros in costs, hotels for thousands of passengers, missed flights, missed meetings, damages, lawsuits, penalties for missed landing/take-off slots, missed time windows for certain cities which don't allow flights after a certain time, etc. And often you discover legacy stuff while you're upgrading that needs fixing, stuff that no one knows how to replace anymore or is physically hard to access.

Sometimes it is genuinely better to leave it. COBOL is 60 years old. There's still plenty of stuff running on it, exactly because it's often too expensive and too risky to replace.

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)

Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...

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I use it for gmail and related google apps, nothing else.

Honestly works for me. Chrome for emails and stuff. No history, full privacy mode firefox for everything else. That includes youtube and links in emails.

Google thinks all I ever do is check my emails.

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I honestly wonder if my data wouldn't be safer on some sites, if I skipped two-factor authentication and a recovery email, and simply used my date of birth as a password. At least then, they'd wouldn't be able to leak the phone number or email adress, because I was never forced to give it to them.

It's even more annoying, because you can't easily avoid many of these companies. Eg. for jobs it's really hard to get around using linkedin. I mean, I refuse out of principe and have for years, so my data's a decade out of data, but it's obviously cost me opportunities.

There are almost certainly pictures of me floating around social media, taken without my permission, but tagged by facebook or google just in case I had any fucking privacy. And now thanks to some phones. they also have our finger prints and retinal scans, which will inevitably get leaked sooner rather than later. I pity the poor chumps whose DNA was leaked, that's even worse. Most of that will probably be leaked sooner or later, if it hasn't already, because it turns out a subcontractor used the youtube comment section to communicate between departments.

If I had the technical ability, I would design a two-factor authentication system based on rectal scans.

"Here at OmniCorp we believe all our customers our unique, that's why we believe in securing your data by linking your DNA, phonenumber, social security number, retinal scan and finger print, with a picture of your anus. Bend Over. The Future's Now."

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Fuck I can’t remember even diesel engines falling because of glow plugs.

Fun fact/anecdote:

I remember reading an old timey engineer/designer being told not to never route wiring or fuel under the diesel engine of a vehicle. The reason is that in colder climates, if it gets really cold and the diesel turns to syrup, people will/would sometimes light a small fire under the engine to heat the block and diesel up.

Obviously, nowadays there are electic engine heaters for that, but that doesn't help much if you're in the middle of the Siberian wilderness.

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From the article:

this data doesn’t adjust for the age of the vehicles. Older gas-powered cars fail at a higher rate than the new ones and electric vehicles are obviously much more recent on average.

Their data and the article's title are highly misleading. No shit a year old tesla is going to be more reliable than a 20 year old toyota corolla. You need to compare cars of a similar age, before you can come to a firm conclusion.

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TBF you can turn on an ICE car and let it warm up a bit before you drive it. Some ICE cars also allow you to remotely pre-start or there are after market options so you can use an app to do exactly that. Hell, Russian far east they simply leave the car on for the cold months.

It's just that it's incredibly wasteful/polluting.

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/r/videos used to be a default and supposedly has millions of subscribers, but when I was still on reddit you'd regularly see content with 100 upvotes reach the top of the subreddit and maybe 10 comments. Often this was on bot reposts.

Their numbers should be take with a huge grain of salt.

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The younger generation is less tech savvy than the millenial generation who were forced to figure stuff out themselves and didn't have smartphones.

I get the idea that a lot of people who emigrated to the fediverse are older and also more tech literate given all the linux memes.

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You have a point. Helps increase engagement, like making a spelling mistake or rage bait.

Tiresome, but common.

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PepsiCo are greedy cunts. They're one of the worst examples of greedflation.

Absolutely shameless.

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Chinese EVs are being sold at a loss of up to 35k per car:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/business/nio-china-electric-vehicles.html

The Chinese government is subsidising their car industry, so they can engage in dumping, and decimate our car industries. When our domestic car industries are dead, they'll raise prices. It's like Amazon or any other scummy megacorp that kills local businesses.

This being said, it's hard to feel sorry for companies who also receive plenty of government subsidies and tax breaks, broke the law on emissions testing and likely killed a lot of people because of it, and refused to innovate or lower prices out of sheer greed.

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More like moving to France. For me it wouldn't be an issue. My french isn't bad and I learn languages quickly.

I assume that's not true of everyone, just like everyone isn't great at PC stuff.

Chrome & Firefox are a false duopoly. Do we need another option? Should there be a public option? Should it come from Italy?

Mozilla is ~83% funded by Google. That’s right- the maker of the dominant Chrome browser is mostly behind its own noteworthy “competitor”. When Google holds that much influence over Mozilla, I call it a false duopoly because consumers are duped into thinking the two are strongly competing with each other. In Mozilla’s...

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Internet Explorer it is then!

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Given their videos were so highly ranked, the prevalence of coercion in the industry, and the fact that it's often impossible to tell if someone's been threatened behind the scenes, it's highly likely that most people reading this who have watched porn online have also watched plenty of videos of actual rapes.

This is a simple fact, but one which a lot of people would rather deny, rather than admit their part in perpetuating it, while wondering why watching porn makes them sad. Partly, I suspect, because deep down they know the truth of it.

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Man, this is the kind of “Reddit” comment I wanted to get away from when moving away from Reddit.

Can we please instead make comments that don’t just boil down to “Reddit bad”?

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I was joking, but you are of course right.

It's one of the reasons why people like me are put off using linux, especially when you have to ask those same smug linux users for advice when your first install hits a snag or you have an issue installing drivers.

It's very human behaviour, it's nice to feel special because you're part of an in-group which you deem superior, but yeah.

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Forget money or the unhappiness caused by not being able to be truly independent of your parents.

We're very likely heading for a climate apocalypse. Having children is an act of selfishness.

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"Don't hate the player, hate the game."

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TBF my experience with Japanese and American workers is that you spend a lot of time in the office, but aren't particularly productive. Hardly surprising, given there's loads of evidence that suggests a strict enforcement of leisure time, actually increases productivity.

No one works at 100% if they work 70 hours a week and check their emails during the weekend.

Or as I once put it to a boss, when he asked me why I was leaving the office at 1700 on the dot, I finish my work in 8 hours, my colleagues need 9.

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